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WHEREVER THEY MAY BE
© 1972, The
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Germany needed it
for the reconciliation
of Jews and
Germans
who would not see the dawn of brotherhood break
except in a
common struggle against fascism;
Germany needed it
for a Germany free of desire for revenge,
for a Germany now divided
yet someday surely one again when
through
socialism we shall win peace and the world's respect;
Germany needed it
so that many may put on the magic
spectacles
of Günter Grass
and again see men as they were
in
that dark night,
and so that Kurt-Georg Kiesinger
may hide behind a
false blindman's dark glasses
eyes that he has closed to all that.
And Germany needed
the hand of a woman to deliver it,
for
no one asked the women
who were consumed in the gas ovens
and who died
in the bombings
and who shrieked under torture
whether they were women;
And still the mother
who smiles at
the smile of her infant
cannot conceive that he maybe murdered
or that
he may become a murderer
That is why
impelled by fifty
million corpses
and by all generations yet to come,
my hand struck the
face of ten million Nazis,
and why
the same insult and the same bruise
has marked their forehead.
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